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Best Israeli Cookbook in English?

My daughter just came back from Israel and loved the food there. I thought that I would buy her an Israeli cookbook. There are a surprising number of choices in English. For those of you knowledgable of this type of cuisine, what is your favorite Israeli cookbook?

I can't say that I'm super knowledgeable about Israeli food, but I was at my local bookstore today and flipped through a lovely book called The Book of New Israeli Food (see link). It's sort of big and more of a coffee table style book, but it would make a great gift and there are recipes all throughout. Lots of pretty photos and background info. The Amazon reviews are all positive. Can anyone out there vouch for this book?

The two books I have are The Israeli Cookook by Molly Lyons Bar David published 1964 which I had diffiuclty replacing since the publisher is out of business. The other which I purchased for $3.00 in a Long Beach used bookshop titled The Jewish Holiday Cookbook by Gloria Kaufer Greene.